The deepwater drilling ban has officially ended, but approvals to resume drilling are nowhere to...

The deepwater drilling ban has officially ended, but approvals to resume drilling are nowhere to be seen. Experts say oil firms won't get the green light until H2 2011 at the earliest, and will have to shell out millions in the meantime on rigs they're being forced to idle.

It may not be obvious, but one has to wonder why they are holding back…it couldn’t be that they are trying to create an artificial shortage of petroleum products could it? Nah, the Obama administration wouldn’t do that, would they? No, they wouldn’t do that when the economy is doing so badly, and with many oil rig crews out of work on the Gulf…would they? Why? What is their long range plan? Just wondering…etd